Background
She was born in Mexico City to Jewish immigrant parents from Slovakia who crossed the Atlantic after surviving the Second World War.
She was born in Mexico City to Jewish immigrant parents from Slovakia who crossed the Atlantic after surviving the Second World War.
She has studied Literature and Languages in Mexico, Paris and the United States.
Berman became a showbiz reporter in the late 1970s and has since then become one of the icons of Showbiz Journalism in Mexico. Her staple show Intimamente Shanik was a pioneer in Mexican Television in handling previously censored subjects such as sex, divorces, infidelity, et cetera Currently she writes a column for ESTO (Sports Newspaper), and for television Notas the best-selling gossip magazine in Mexico, has a daily radio show Shanik en Fórmula broadcast nationally in Mexico and worldwide through Radio Fórmula and collaborates in daily television show by Televisa Viva la Mañana.
She is the author of Muy cerca del ombligo (1985) a satire about the showbiz world in Mexico.
She started her journalistic career in 1980.
